Publications
Publications are free; however, please limit requests to one copy of each per organization.
Click here for our book order form.Books/Guides
How to Start and Manage a Group Activities and Respite Program for People with Alzheimer's Disease and Their Families: A Guide for Community-Based Organizations
3rd Edition. The Brookdale Foundation, 1997. 74 pages
This guide covers the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of a community-based group respite program for cognitively impaired persons and their caregivers.
Relatives Raising Children: A Guide to Finding Help and Hope
Marianne Takas, J.D. 166 pages, Third Edition 2005
This book is based upon what long-term relative caregivers (and family services professionals who work with them) have learned about raising relative children. It is designed to provide useful information, strategies, and ideas and to help link you with others who can help. Marianne Takas has worked on behalf of children as an attorney, a youth worker, a parent and a foster parent.
Field of Themes: 100 Activities for Our Senior Friends
Barbara Fister and Sylvia Valentine, 240 pages, 2006
This book provides 100 theme-based suggestions for activities for social model adult day programs for people with dementia.
Each themed activity is based on a four-hour program and provides opportunities for organized and spontaneous interaction for socializing, exercising and craft design.
How To Plan and Implement an Early Memory Loss Program
Kristin Einberger and Janelle Sellick, 125 pages, 2006
This guide utlines a social day program model that addresses the need for social and mental stimulation and support for people with early memory loss.
This how-to-guide provides a practical step by step strategy to develop a successful program that emphasizes memory enhancement through cognitive stimulation, education and socialization.
Promising Practices in Encouraging & Supporting Grandparents and Relatives
This publication, a collaboration of the National Association of Area Agencies
on Aging (N4A) and the Brookdale Foundation, is intended to make the aging
network across the nation aware of important and successful Relatives as
Parents Programs (RAPPs) operated by Area Agencies on Aging.
We hope this guidebook will encourage the replication of RAPP supportive services to relative caregivers by the many Area Agencies on Aging that serve older adults.
Note, hard copies of this publication are not available; however, you may download the guidebook here.
Monographs
The Brookdale National Group Respite Program
An overview of the program established to meet the needs of persons with dementia and their caregivers. Includes information on the Brookdale Model, Community Collaborations, Participant Profiles, Partnerships and more.
The Brookdale Relatives as Parents Program
An overview of the program established to help meet the needs of grandparents and other relatives who have taken on the responsibility of parenting in the absence of biological parents.